A town connected by a painful past

Louise Erdrich's 13th mesmerizing and generations-spanning tale, A Plague of Doves, takes place in the small, now-dying town of Pluto, North Dakota - a town founded by whites in the late 1800s on the very edge of an Ojibwe Indian reservation, in the hope of profiting from the soon-to-be-built railroad line. There Evelina Harp, a young woman of mixed heritage, hears from her grandfather Mooshum...

Hearing a haunting drum beat

Louise Erdrich's masterful storytelling shines once again in her 11th novel, The Painted Drum, in which she weaves together three stories, all connected by the mystical power of a long-lost Ojibwe drum. In the opening story, the drum is found by Faye Travers, an estate appraiser in the small New Hampshire town where she lives with her mother Elsie, whose own mother was Ojibwe. Elsie tells Faye...

Avenging the loss of sacred ground

A mesmerizing tale of revenge, retribution and forgiveness lies at the core of Louise Erdrich's latest work, Four Souls, in which she reprises characters from Love Medicine and The Beet Queen and returns to a cherished piece of land from Tracks. The story opens with the relentless trek of Fleur Pillager as she seeks revenge on John James Mauser, the man who tricked her into giving up the land...